Wolfgang Borchert Quotes

• A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.

  Wolfgang Borchert

  Death, Men, Circles

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• I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.

  Wolfgang Borchert

  Dark, Should, Planets

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• Truth will only make you unpopular.

  Wolfgang Borchert

  Truth

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• People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.

  Wolfgang Borchert

  Hands, Play, Numbers

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